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Plan 9 from Outer Space
The Forsaken
The White Rose
by Ann Marie Oliva and Charles Zio
At a Glance
Category: Live Radio Production
Originally Performed:
November 22, 2004
Hilton Charlotte and Towers
222 East Third Street, Charlotte, NC 28202
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Directed by Ann Marie Oliva
Featuring
Erin Fanelly
Drew Harkey
Lisa Madsen
Michael Melendez
Byron J. Miller
Jan Notzon
Al Soffer
Narrated by
Elizabeth Peterson-Vita
Based on a true story, The White Rose is the name of the only documented group of
German anti-Nazi student activists during World War II. The play begins in May 1942
when Sophie Scholl joins her beloved brother Hans, a medical student/soldier for
the Third Reich, at the University of Munich. He and fellow student/soldiers Alexander
Schmorell, Christoph Probst, Wilhelm Graf, and Hans' girlfriend, Traute Lafrenz,
are a devoted group of young intellectuals who are appalled by Hitler and the Nazis.
Soon after Sophie's arrival, leaflets denouncing Hitler begin to appear in Munich
and other cities in Europe. It doesn't take Sophie long to discover that Hans and
his friends are the creators of this planned campaign to inform Germans of the evil
of the Third Reich, and exhorting them to resist. Young, idealistic, naive, passionate,
these students were courageous in their struggle against overwhelming odds. Though
it has been more than sixty years since the heroic acts of The White Rose, the issues
of truth and freedom for which they fought remain relevant and current.
At the intermission, hear an interview with Pastor James A. Bartos, Holy Trinity
Church, Charlotte, NC
Plan 9 from Outer Space
The Forsaken
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